Taylor Swift dropped The Life of a Showgirl, and the internet collectively cheered, gasped, and immediately started dissecting every lyric. While each track had something to obsess over, one in particular had everyone blushing and laughing: “Wood.”
With lines like “New heights of manhood” and nods to “knock on wood,” the song left fans scrambling for explanations. Now, Swift is finally offering some.
“I brought this into the studio and I was like, ‘I wanna sort of do a throwback kind of timeless-sounding song,’ and I have this idea about like, I ain’t gotta knock on wood and we would knock on wood and it would be all these superstitions,” the 35-year-old told Jimmy Fallon on the Monday, October 6 episode of The Tonight Show. “It really started out in a very innocent place,” she laughed, adding, “You know, it started out... I dunno what happened, man, I got in there, we started vibing and I don’t know... I don’t know how we got here but I love the song so much.”
The cheeky song reached a new peak — #5 on Global Spotify (up two spots), with 10.7 million streams in a single day — despite being tucked toward the end of the album. Naturally, it made the rounds. And while fans saw innuendos everywhere, the Grammy winner’s mom, Andrea Swift, heard something else entirely. That, Taylor says, is the beauty of “Wood.”
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“WOOD” reached a new peak #5 (+2) on Global Spotify with 10.7 million streams despite being one of the last tracks. pic.twitter.com/bqSbUZUlPi
— Taylor Swift Charts (@TChartSwift) October 5, 2025“That’s the joy of the double entendre,” Swift said on SiriusXM's The Morning Mash Up. “In that song, you can read that song for people and it just goes right over their head. You see in that song what you want to see in that song.” According to the “Actually Romantic Singer,” Andrea falls squarely in the ‘it’s just about superstitions’ camp.
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“I think that she thinks that song is about superstitions, popular superstitions,” Taylor explained. “Which, it absolutely is.”
Taylor’s fiancé, Travis Kelce — widely assumed to be the muse behind “Wood” — hasn’t publicly commented on the song. But when she revealed its title on New Heights in August, Jason Kelce cracked a laugh and teased, “Wood? Nice.”
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